Posts Tagged ‘cameron’

German magazine Der Spiegel today alleged that Merkel's phone may have been hacked by the US National Security Agency. The story has led to all hell breaking lose in Germany. Given the country’s pai...
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The German public will this week vote for a new government. As I’ve argued before, there won’t be any quantum leap towards more eurozone integration aft the elections, as some hope, but what do Ge...
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Angela Merkel is Europe’s most important political leader by a mile. So, viewed from London, it’s big news that last night, for the first time, she floated the possibility for powers to be brought...
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I once gave a talk at a “high-level” seminar on UK media and the EU, attended by various British and European commentators and journalists. They weren’t exactly natural Sun readers, if you get m...
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“Merkel lobbies to shield German automakers from emissions rules” read a headline in today’s papers. EU leaders are meeting today and tomorrow for their quarterly summit. Though rules around how...
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There are a lot of issues driving the recent Tory debate over the EU referendum bill including Cameron’s leadership-style, the rise of Ukip – and the related tug-of-war over whether to 'energise t...
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About now David Cameron will sit down with his German counterpart Angela Merkel, with the discussion likely to be dominated by Europe. The issues are complex, but come down to a simple trade-off: Came...
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Why was Lord Heseltine's report so popular with politicians and commentators earlier this week? In my view, it is because it is one of the few documents produced recently by a notable figure in public...
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso used his "state of the Union" address yesterday (I know…) to call for a debate on rewriting the EU treaties, kicking off in 2014. It might seem a lo...
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Talk of a banking union for the eurozone has become fashionable. Many, including the British government, see the idea as a way to provide some sort of backstop for the eurozone, where shaky banks rema...
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